Criminals target elderly couple in Glencoe
Police called for back up but realising that the police were after them, the men fired shots at the police. No one was injured.
Crime in Glencoe has shifted from central town to the northern areas and Glenridge.
Police said the most serious incident was on April 20 when an elderly couple, the Mares, was attacked in their Bloekom Laan house at around 10am.
The woman of the house, who has one leg, and her husband were watching television in their room when they heard a noise coming from the lounge window.
The man went to investigate and it was then that an armed man entered the bedroom and threatened the woman who was lying on the bed.
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Despite her protests that she was disabled, the man assaulted her and demanded money.
A second man entered the room and the men proceeded to load up the flat screen television, two air pistols and a decoder. They also took keys with them, got into the garage and drove off in a bakkie in which they loaded the stolen goods.
The police and local Neighbourhood Watch members arrived to give chase.
Glencoe police launched a manhunt and later that night, a patrol van spotted the stolen car near Hattingspruit, in the vicinity of the old drive-in.
Police called for back up but realising that the police were after them, the men fired shots at the police. No one was injured.
The men managed to evade arrest after abandoning the stolen vehicle.
Following up on more information, police searched a house in the old drive-in area and recovered a flatscreen TV, cell phones and other goods.
It is not clear if these goods were stolen.
Some days later a house on Acacia Street was ransacked while the homeowner was away and police said there have also been numerous burglaries in the Glenridge area.
The establishing of a neighbourhood watch in central Glencoe has gone a long way to stem crime in that area and criminals have now ‘moved their operations’, police said.
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